No Exit
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Desc: Jean-Paul Sartre the great French existentialist displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT an unforgettable portrayal of hell. The play is a depiction of the afterlife in which three deceased characters are punished by being locked into a room together for all eternity. It is the source of Sartre's especially famous and often misinterpreted quotation "L'enfer c'est les autres" or "Hell is other people" a reference to Sartre's ideas about the Look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object in the world of another consciousness.